The term dashboards come from the automobile world where it meant as instrumentation or controls for operating a vehicle. In the IT parlance, the use of dashboards meant as the state or health of system or organizations. Though this analogy cannot be taken too far because running a business is not same as running a vehicle. But the similarities of knowing the health of the system is bang-on. Let us learn about Server Dashboard Report in this blog post.

In our previous post, I gave an introduction on where to find all the SQL Server Management Studio reports. Today we will look at the first and the most basic report all of us must be working with. It is called as “Server Dashboard” report under the Server node, standard reports node.